SCAN Invitational #4 !

Hello everybody, welcome back once again to another SCAN invitational, this time number 4! We have had large success with every tournament so far and that allows me to bring you another awesome day of Starcraft 2 action!!
For you that do not know what exactly you are in for, SCAN invitational is a 1day tournament, 8 top EU players fight it out for a £1000 prize pool! Fun filled, exciting and an awesome experience for all!

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Official Team-Dignitas page: http://www.team-dignitas.net/scan-invitational

This tournament is going to be brought to you live from Sweden again with a live interactive show, fantastic SC2 games, hilarious banter, prizes to be won and lots of fun to be had! Coverage will be brought to you by dApollo and Semmlertheriot!

Prize Pool: £1000
1st: £500
2nd: £300
3rd: £100
4th: £100

When? - Sunday 4th March 2012
Starting time:
16:00 CET
10:00 EDT
07:00 PDT
15:00 GMT

Where?
The tournament can be found on dApollo's stream, the stream will be here: http://www.twitch.tv/dignitasapollo

Format:
The tournament will be played out live!! Game after game after game, with little breaks. There will be a rough line estimate of for each game, but depending on how fast/slow the games go, the schedule will change. The tournament will remain best of 3 until the finals which will be a best of 5. Reason for this is due to not enough hours in a day! Map pool and Brackets will be released publicly after all players have been announced.

Invited players:
The invited players will be released throughout this week, 2players every day starting today, everyday at 16:00CET!

Pre tournament announcement schedule
28th 16:00 CET = Feast/Brat_OK
29th 16:00 CET = BlinG/Slivko
1st 16:00 CET = Cloud/Stephano
2nd 16:00 CET = Diestar/Grubby
3rd 16:00 CET = Bracket/Map Pool

4th = Live show begins 16:00CET

Rough Tournament Schedule:
(Local time - Swedish CET)
16:00 Tournament introduction
16:15 Game1 ro8 - Best of 3
17:15 Game2 ro8 - Best of 3
18:15 Game3 ro8 - Best of 3
19:15 Game4 ro8 - Best of 3
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20:15 Game1 Semi Final1 - Best of 3
21:15 Game2 Semi Final2 - Best of 3
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22:15 - 22:30 BREAK
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22:30 - Final introduction
22:40 - Game1 Final - Best of 5

Bracket and Map Pool

7maps:
TalDarim Altar LE
Shakuras Plataeu
Korhal Compound
ESV Cloud Kingdom
GSL Day Break
GSL Metropolis
GSL Antiga

Bracket:

Game1: Bling vs Slivko
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Game2: Grubby vs Cloud
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Game3: BratOK vs Feast
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Game4: Stephano vs Diestar

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Player Introductions

Feast

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Name: Jérémy Vansnick
Game ID: MǂFeast
Race: Protoss
Age: 18
Nationality: Belgian
Largest Achievement: 5th-8th IEM Kiev

Feast has always been a good competitor online winning quite a few online trophies but is pretty much a newcomer to the shining spotlight of an offline stage. After his amazing run through IEM Kiev where he managed to topple LiquidHero in the group stage proving his worth, he even managed to snipe a map away from MMA but unfortunately the overall champion came back to win 3-1. Remember he is only 18years old with not that much high level experience, most definitely a Protoss to keep track off throughout 2012. You could say still an underdog within this tournament but anything is possible for this youngster.

BratOK

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Name: Pavel Kuznetsov
Game ID: ImbaFXO.BratOK
Race: Terran
Age: 25
Nationality: Russian
Largest Achievement: 4th Assembly Summer 2011

Pavel has always been one of the strongest Terrans in the foreign scene since Starcraft: Brood War. His doesn't really compete at that many tournaments so gets very little spot light and camera time which leads some people to discredit his actual skill level. Finishing 4th at Assembly and taking a game from Nestea and beating Loner at Blizzcon 2011 displaying good results once actually at events. He is a very macro focused Terran but delivers a mean punch of aggression in his play which makes him a very dangerous player and able to beat any player when in shape. A strong competitor for sure here.

BlinG

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Name: Samayan Kay
Game ID: DignitasBlinG
Race: Protoss
Age: 20
Nationality: English
Largest Achievement: Top 8 WCG 2011

Team Dignitas representative once again for this invitational enters the ring. Samayan 'BlinG' Kay, every day gains more and more fans especially after coming off a strong Assembly performance where he lands another impressive group stage run of 3-0 including a 2-0 victory over TSLPolt. BlinG just recently returned from living in France within the Millenium team house and has worked extremely hard on his game, his vs Z is so fierce now to compliment his ever so strong game vs Terran, well why wouldn't it be after living with Stephano for months. He has gone from entering tournaments as a complete underdog to actually a strong competitor, representing Protoss and arguably the United Kingdoms num1 player, please welcome Bling!!

Slivko

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Name: Artem Garavtsov
Game ID: RoXKis.Slivko
Race: Zerg
Age: 22
Nationality: Russian
Largest Achievement: 2nd Grubby Pro Invite

Slivko, not so known in the international scene but has started to put down some decent results managing to qualify for the MLG Winter Arena and before that competiting well in the IEM Sao Paulo event finally losing vs Supernova but managing to make it a close one 2-3. He is a very dangerous Zerg player who if untouched in game can easily turn on the heat and pull off amazing wins and on the other hand actually lands some pretty early pressure himself. I feel giving him the opportuntiy to shine here will prove to be a great achivement if he can lock down an impressive win. Another underdog going into this but a scary one for sure.

Cloud

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Name: Carlo Giannacco
Game ID: aTn.Cloud
Race: Terran
Age: 24
Nationality: Italian
Largest Achievement: [image loading]

2nd UGS 2011

Cloud most notable for his rivalry against Goody or maybe, known for/as 'The Cookie Monster', does anybody still call him this? A very all around Terran player truly capable of picking up a decent tournament victory if he could string results together. A little bit inconsistent with his practice and results but on a good day, he can beat anybody, Thorzain victory at ESWC and taking a map away from MC at HSC4 are good examples. I think Cloud deserves a spot in this tournament as he has been Italys num1 player for both SC1 and SC2 for about 7-8years now, pretty impressive! Wish Cloud the best!

Stephano

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Name: Ilyes Satouri
Game ID: Millenium.Stephano
Race: Zerg
Age: 18
Nationality: French
Largest Achievement: [image loading]

1st IPL3 2011

Please, welcome back the SCAN 2x Invitational champion here looking for his 3rd. Stephano widely know considered the best non Korean Starcraft2 player in the world, I have asked many Koreans who they think is the best and the answer echoes. He seems simply unbeatable and untouchable in the foreign scene and only Code S level Koreans are capable of stopping his path of destruction. The pioneer of Zerg play, welcome the IPL3/ESWC Champion!!

Diestar

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Name: Marcin Wieczoerk
Game ID: Millenium.Diestar
Race: Terran
Age: 20
Nationality: Polish
Largest Achievement: [image loading]

1st EPS Poland

Here is Diestar, a regular face in the online scene since forever and now slowly making regular appearances offline most recently Assembly Winter 2012 where he managed to secure a victory over Evil Genius JYP! With more experience Diestar could become a consistent face on stage. Diestar plays a very aggressive style which could catch unexpected victims in this tournament, he uses medivacs and good unit control to keep the opponent under constant pressure, while focusing around nailing upgrade timings. Diestar, possibly the least expected to compete well here but we will see on Sunday whether or not he will surprise you.

Grubby

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Name: Manuel Schenkhuizen
Game ID: Grubby
Race: Protoss
Age: 25
Nationality: Dutch
Largest Achievement: [image loading]

4th ESWC 2011

The peoples Champ enters the tournament, who doesn't like Grubby? His legendary WC3 past and now is rising SC2 skill, he slowly is becoming one of the best Protoss players out there as his hard work and determination is 2nd to none. I feel the only player in this tournament once again that can stomp out Grubby would be his arch nemesis Stephano, other than that, Grubby is a clear favourite to take the entire tournament. Get behind Grubby and show him your support as he carries your hope for a victory.

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On March 03 2012 00:01 d.Apollo wrote:
Welcome Grubby and Diestar, even though Grubby spoiled at it the end!! We only had one guess correct, congratulations to Shibbxyz for guessing these two :D :D

Do you like the final lineup? Let me know!!

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On March 02 2012 00:49 d.Apollo wrote:
SCAN have asked where would like you like offers to be focused on for this weekend, gaming equipment, mouse keyboards? graphics cards? etc. Post if you have any ideas and they may listen to you :D !

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